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Monday, February 13, 2017

The anti-Flynn campaign as well as the bad-Assad campaign are aimed at Trump policy changes. These changes move away from the course the borg implemented throughout the Obama reign.

Meanwhile the Trump administration implements regressive economic and social policies without any noticeable resistance in the media, in Congress or from so called Non-Government-Organizations:

The borg or deep state is way more concerned with keeping up its plans of uncontested global dominance than with the welfare of the citizens within the empire.

President Trump has embarked on the most aggressive campaign against government regulation in a generation, joining with Republican lawmakers to roll back rules already on the books and limit the ability of federal regulators to impose new ones.

“We have been warning this president and Gen. Flynn on the air for months that [if] you go after the intel community, the intel community will go after you,” Scarborough added, after recalling her hunch.“They are the last people you want to go after.”

No rational person would care whether Flynn spoke to our Russian allies. Meanwhile, where was the scandal about V.P.-elect Bush speaking to Iran about a hostages-for-arms deal in 1980?

The Saker thinks it is game over for Trump.

Pepe Escobar views it as a strategic retreat.

I've said all along that, in order to survive, Trump would need to do a Machavellian purge of his enemies after he took office. The purge did not happen and here we are. People in Washington do not play nice. This is war, and the neocons are winning.

Should just have been an embarrassment. Trump should not have let it be turned into a takedown. That was a show of weakness. Now he is more vulnerable than before. Bad strategic move unless I don't see the logic of it or don't have enough facts.

Flynn is not just a random guy who can be easily replaced. He is the DIA head who issued a report in 2012 blaming the West for the rise of ISIS. As the Saker put it: Flynn was is the cornerstone of Trump’s national security policy. For one thing, Flynn dared the unthinkable: he dared to declare that the bloated US intelligence community had to be reformed. Flynn also tried to subordinate the CIA and the Joint Chiefs to the President via the National Security Council. Put differently, Flynn tried to wrestle the ultimate power and authority from the CIA and the Pentagon and subordinate them back to the White House. Flynn also wanted to work with Russia. Not because he was a Russia lover, the notion of a Director of the DIA as a Putin-fan is ridiculous, but Flynn was rational, he understood that Russia was no threat to the USA.

The Saker: Just to stress an important point: the disaster is not so much that Flynn is out but what Trump’s caving in to the Neocon tells us about Trump’s character (or lack thereof). Ask yourself – after what happened to Flynn, would you stick your neck out for Trump?

We are in for a hell of a ride as Trump is dominated on every front, wait for Paul Ryan to solidify his control on the national front LOL!

He is used to be the bully without confrontation, not on the position of lesser power.

Is easy to be a master "negotiator" when you are in the position of strength or can threat to do something. But when your threats are not credible, not so easy right? Master persuasion works for convincing the uneducated and desperate masses, but in real politik? Not so much.

Instead of refusing Flynn’s resignation and instead of firing those who dared cook up these ridiculous accusations against Flynn, Trump accepted the resignation.

There was a discrepancy between what was stated publicly and what the tapping of the phone conversation revealed. Nobody should be fired for revealing facts.

This is a question of whether Flynn could be defended against the political mud that would be thrown at him. Trump and his administration decided that they couldn't afford to go that route. I'm not a Washington insider so I don't know if that decision was cowardly or pragmatic. Saying it's all over sounds premature to me, but what do I know?